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...HUGH TREVOR-ROPER...
Pollster George Gallup Jr. feels that Carter is managing to get across the idea that he is "the people's President." Adds a colleague. Burns Roper: "I expect his people-to-people campaign will be highly successful. Historically, all polls show that the No. 1 attribute people seek in a President is honesty and openness. That was true before Johnson and Nixon, but it is even more true...
Teilhard's works have become "the property of a cabal of admirers, quite outside the mainstream of modern thought," assert the Lukases. Opinions vary on whether that will change. The secular scientists whom Teilhard had hoped to attract tend to ignore his work. British Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper recently dismissed him as one of the "great charlatans" of modern letters. His influence among Protestant thinkers is minimal...
...national willingness to see a new President make good is traditional. Pollster Burns Roper found, for example, that during the period between election and inauguration, 64% of those reached in one survey described themselves as Carter supporters-"a measure of the good will he commands." Yet the really tough decisions, the ones that will divide people, lie ahead...
...debate probably did not persuade many voters to switch from one candidate to the other. Most surveys, however, gave Carter the edge in the final confrontation. In a snap poll by Yankelovich, 33% rated Carter the winner, 26% Ford, and 41% called it a tossup. A Roper survey for the Public Broadcast Service showed Carter the clear winner by 40% to 29%, with 31% viewing the encounter as a standoff. On the other hand, an Associated Press telephone sample of 1,027 voters gave Ford the victory, 35.5% to 33%. The A.P. sample also gave Ford the edge over Carter...